Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Sepia Saturday 95 : Saturday 8 October 2011

Royal Library of Denmark - Flickr Commons

A very different picture of women for my theme photograph this week following the Queensland pin-up girl of Sepia Saturday 94. This archive photograph is taken from the Flickr Commons collection of the Royal Library of Denmark. The photograph is by Henriette Crone (1874-1933) and shows Danish women marching for social justice and its inclusion in the Flickr set "Women in Parliament" is timely given the fact that Helle Thorning-Schmidt became the first female Prime minister of Denmark earlier this week. You don't need me to suggest themes based on this photograph - just post whatever interpretation you come up with on or around Saturday the 8th October. As always, you don't need to follow a theme - as long as it is old and interesting that is all we are concerned with. And speaking of old and interesting - I am sure people have noticed that the Sepia Saturday count is nearing 100! If anyone has any suggestions as to how we should celebrate our centenary please let us know in your comments.

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

I can't believe I forgot the linky last night. A photo of my great grandmother and other seamstresses at Annis Furs in the 1920s, along with a photo of Annis Fur in downtown Detroit in 1917 and a link to an even older photo from 1910 with Annis furs written on a sign shaped like a hippo.

This is a great photo Alan, and I'm really impressed with the flags of signs that they carried...I just might have to draw my own for another post I do....the true colors were probably lovely too, and amazing how the one woman carries on her dress something that appears like a mask (now I have to check out the Danes and their emblems) oh what a person could carry out on that alone...it's just mind boggling! Have a great weekend....!

In writing my post, I first thought how fortunate my children are that there is an endless supply of books, magazines and reading material available at the click of a mouse. But, then I thought of the discoveries and conversations that might never have been.

Oops! I forgot to leave my comment. Your photo is fascinating, Alan. What is on that woman's skirt ... Danish skulls?

I really did a stretch on mine this week, but I think it is an interesting post. I just now remembered that the little city of Yoncalla, Oregon was the first all women city council in the U.S.; but that isn't what I wrote about.

This was very interesting. They almost look like statues. I was having blogger problems and am later than I like. Lost my follower list. Don't even have a button to ask you to reup. Oh well, nothing new. QMM

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.